{"id":16573,"date":"2017-07-04T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2017\/07\/04\/highlights-crashes-cause-chaos-on-stage-4-sagan-disqualified-r6711\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T06:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:35:59","slug":"highlights-crashes-cause-chaos-on-stage-4-sagan-disqualified-r6711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/highlights-crashes-cause-chaos-on-stage-4-sagan-disqualified-r6711\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Crashes cause chaos on Stage 4, Sagan disqualified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was high drama today on stage 4 of the 2017 Tour de France. The first incident saw the yellow jersey holder Geraint Thomas go down in a bunch crash.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the final sprint, Sagan appeared to cause Mark Cavendish to crash into a barrier. An act that has seen him disqualified from the race.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XXI0rjW0aEQ?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Close up of Cavendish crash<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rXwZczGqWls?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Official Statement from the Tour on Peter Sagan disqualification:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSNCycling\/status\/882286213159374848\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSNCycling\/status\/882286213159374848<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Sagan&#8217;s comment after the race:<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hlslckIexno?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Last kilometre<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4atl-3Njwg?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bg-slate-100 p-5\">\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Results<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Results on Stage 4:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ 4:53:54<br \/>2 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin<br \/>3 Andr\u00e9 Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal<br \/>4 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits<br \/>5 Adrien Petit (Fra) Direct Energie<br \/>6 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Lotto Soudal<br \/>7 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb<br \/>8 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates<br \/>9 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal<br \/>10 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Quick-Step Floors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall results after Stage 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 14:54:25<br \/>2 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:12<br \/>3 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb<br \/>4 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 0:00:16<br \/>5 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:25<br \/>6 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:30<br \/>7 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Sky 0:00:32<br \/>8 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal<br \/>9 Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ 0:00:33<br \/>10 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:00:34\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was high drama today on stage 4 of the 2017 Tour de France. The first incident saw the yellow jersey holder Geraint Thomas go down in a bunch crash. Then in the final sprint, Sagan appeared to cause Mark Cavendish to crash into a barrier. An act that has seen him disqualified from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[553,1166,232],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-mark-cavendish","tag-peter-sagan","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}